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Linefeed by Codifier

A personal start page for displaying RSS and Atom feed headlines

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Example tab with feeds.Example tab with feeds when headlines are wrapped.Example empty tab.Global settings.Settings for a specific tab, overriding global settings.Settings for a specific feed, overriding its tab's or global settings.Dialog showing discovered feeds.
About this extension
Linefeed is a personal start page that let's you display the headlines of your favorite RSS and Atom feeds in an organized fashion.

Features:
• Easily organize your feeds in tabs and columns, by dragging and dropping them.
• Subscribe to new feeds by dragging and dropping feed links or by entering feed links manually.
• Discover feeds in web pages you are visiting and be notified of them through Linefeed's browser toolbar icon.
• Automatically display feeds if you happen to directly visit a feed's XML-page, so you can subscribe to them.
• Backup and restore Linefeed data or exchange data with other feed readers, by importing or exporting OPML files.
• The tabs can be displayed horizontally or vertically, in the corner of your choice.
• Customize a feed's title and its link if they are not to your liking.
• Choose the number of columns per tab or extension-wide.
• Choose the number of headlines to show per feed, per tab or extension-wide.
• Choose between wrapping or not wrapping feed headlines per feed, per tab or extension-wide.
• Choose to show icons per feed, per tab or extension-wide.
• Choose a foreground color that suits you best.
• Choose a font size that suits you best.

Currently available translations:
• English (US)
• Dutch (NL)
• Italian (IT) provided by Michele Pezza (https://github.com/MichelePezza)

Current limitations:
• There's no scrolling mechanism for tab bar overflow yet. If you create more tabs than your screen size can show, you can't currently scroll through them.
• There's no option to choose a background color yet.

Permissions justification:
• tabs
Needed to open Linefeed in a browser tab and to replace a feed's XML page with Linefeed, when Linefeed is configured to subscribe to feeds.
• storage
Needed to save your Linefeed tabs, feeds and settings.
• unlimitedStorage
Needed to save an unlimited amount of your Linefeed tabs, feeds and settings.
• downloads
Needed to show a "Save as..." dialog when exporting Linefeed data to an OPML file.
• webRequest
Needed to discover feeds on visited pages.
• webRequestBlocking
Needed to replace a feed's XML page with Linefeed, when Linefeed is configured to subscribe to feeds.
• Hosts / <all_urls>
Needed to discover feeds on visited pages.
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Required permissions:

  • Download files and read and modify the browser’s download history
  • Access browser tabs
  • Access your data for all websites
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Version
0.0.10.9
Size
103.37 KB
Last updated
5 years ago (Dec 10, 2020)
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  • Feeds, News & Blogging
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